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final edition Chicago examiner i vol xv no 136 a m t , ._,, , i ii tuesday Chicago may 29 1917 .- - i â– â– â– -Â»..,, tuesday registered tt s patent office â– â€” - p â– â– ' â– '- price two cents ___>.-_-___ elsewhere three cents s muzzle on peace talkstirs capitol announcement of committee on public information arouses congress to new peril on com promise censorship provision six senators and representatives formerly disposed toward a mild censorship now oppose curb of any nature by james j montague 11 t ashixgton may 28 de vy spite the mor strenuous el ' ' forts of the enemies oc free speech the prospects of estahlishing a legal censorship are dwindling the announcement by the commit tee on public information that dis ' u-sion ot peace terms ought to be banned during the war has convinced members of both houses the adminis in's aim is not only to censor lews but to curb all discussion this amounts of course to a pro hibition of free speech and has aised a storm of protest new clause called menace to liberty both senator johnson and senator borah have pointed out that any cen sor-hip is a menace to american lib erty the conference committee will re port its makeshift amendment to morrow the report will not be brought up before thursday and no vote will be taken till friday when t is hoped the whole matter will be decided once and for ail in its final clause the amendment destroys all pretense of permitting comment and criticism such comment and criticism are permitted only when they do not re veal prohibited news crime to expose official incompetency it fail readily 1 neen that had a paper daring be spanish war com mented on the fact that embalmed beef was being sold to the troops it vonld have revealed the fact that embalmed beef was beine sold to the troops and inasmnvh as anything con cerning the troops could be prohib ited by presidential proc imation the editor protesting against the poi soning of the soldiers would be sub ject to a jail sentence rhe compromise also permits the president to say what may be per mitted thereby putting it within his power or rather in that of some ir sible subordinate to limit the printing ot news to very routine mat lers and bar everything else 1 nilrr this draft or the amendment if the president failed to authorize the printing of any news of the war no paper could print any such news ______ ettin into serious trouble a counting of noses in the senate to-day indicated that there is still a decisive majority against any cen orship senate demands facts in mongolia deaths washington may 28 â€” the sen ate naval affairs committee will be i gin searching inquiry friday into the accident which killed two chi cago red cross nurses on the amer ican liner mongolia the investigation was ordered by the senate to-day action was pre ceded by vigorouÃŸ debate senator - reylinghuysen denounced the use of shells seventeen to nine teen years old he said this is not the president's war this is not the war department's war this is not any one man's war this is a war of the ameri can people the president is _ master word painter but i de nounce this stupid doctrine that the american people must be kept in ignorance re_ariil conduct of . ._â€¢ war kaiser masses new army to crush france ii 10 hurl 110 wiiis berlin plans crushing blow be fore u s can send troops 21 airplanes fall in battle seen as prelude of new struggle london may 28 despite offi cial secrecy there were strong hints 10-day that the fighting on the west front is about to be re i sumed ou a tremendous scale reports from behind the german ' lines indicate a massing of new forces and artillery on a huge scale an enormous number of troops drawn from the eastern front and fresh masses of new troops from the interior of germany are con centrated behind the arras battle field behind the french and british lines there also is tremendous activity it | is expected that the british and french will launch a new offensive to forestall any new plan of'cam paign von hindenburg has in mind a hint of the impending ne"w bat i ties is given by the widespread air fighting of yesterday and to-day paris to-night claimed the destruc tion of nine german aeroplanes the germans claim to have demolished a dozen allied flyers and two observa tion balloons british airmen for the last two days have been driving far behind the german lines this struggle for air supremacy has been the prelude to every new offensive kaiser plans drive before u s can help washington may 2 s from a mass of confidential information which has reached president wilson | and his advisors in the last few days ! the full scope of the latest german plans are revealed germany plans the destruction of france's power of offensive before american troops can be trained and | placed in the trenches it is learned that germany is about j to throw into the fighting on the west front a new and fresh army es : timated at from 1.000,00 to 1,500,000 | men who have been under intensive training i germany for several i months america unable to offset offensive now these men were drawn from the industrial life of germany by the national reorganization that followed germany's man power legislation military men here view the new situation with misgiving it is . scarcely possible the united states j can furnish men in sufficient num i ers to stem any new german of [ tensive this summer recent dispatches from france passed by the censor stated without i any equivocation that france practi cally has reached the end of her man ] power england too it is believed reached the limit of her offensive power with 1,500,000 on the wesi front and 000,000 at home and in j other fields it is doubtful whether i she can place new armies in the tih.f in france ' the american troops destined franc cannot excel 100,000 the end of summer it wiil take mo ' â– han a year to place i reauj effective | force us armies are reckoned day in tho field britain's last dollar staked says balfour ottawa may 28 a j bal four british minister of for eign affairs speaking to-day to parliament declared england had staked its lost dollar on democ racy and if democracy failed the empire would be bankrupt indeed mr balfour declared however he knew democracy would not fail i know the democracies of the old world and the new will come out of this struggle not merely triumphant in the military sense but strengthened by their own ef fort he saiji food survey bill is passed lever measure now goes to sen ate miss rankin wins on maiden speech by john temple graves washington may 28 the great food bills are having a slow pas sage through the sixty-fifth con gress the house after four days offi cial debate to-day passed the first lever bill â€” the bill carrying an ap propriation of 14,522,000 for food survey and stimulation of produc tion the bill was passed without a roll call but in the senate legislation was stormy millions of dollars in an hour were ejected from the gore bill late this afternoon the sen ate cut down the appropriation of 4,500,000 for the eradication of ani mal diseases to 825,000 the vote was 35 to 34 further efforts will be made to cut other appropriations steadily the most notable comment was the statement of hoke smith of the com mittee who comforted his rebellious colleagues with the remark that the agricultural committee had not yet agreed even on the hoover matter nor had it favorably reported the sec tion under criticism by the senator from missouri nor had any mem ber of the agricultural committee ex pressed a willingness to introduce a resolution carrying such powers jeanette tlankin â€” the lady from montana â€” made her maiden speech and succeeded in obtaining an amend ment to the food bill miss ranjcin is a sleepless sentinel and champion of woman's rights in the house and in woman's catise she won her first congressional laurels | she introduced spoke on and had i passed in less than five minutes amid ! tremendous applause an amendment i providing that as much as possible i of the food conservation work under the lever bill shall be done by women representative hamlin in the i chair suddenly recognized the lady i from montana in an instant the turbulent house i was silent miss rankin braced her j self against the row of chairs in front i of her seat cleared her throat and 'â– began her brief simple and mar i velously effective speech she spoke | for just three minutes when she concluded the house broke into an ovation so sustained that the chair man of the committee of the whole was forced to ran for order when order was restored chairman of the agricultural committee lever said i should represent neither the chivalry nor the eood judgment of the agricultural committee if i of fered any objection to this amend ment <â– the amendment was carried unani mously amid great applause lorimer s arm broken in sawmill mishap william lorimer former united states senator and head of the de funct la salle strvet hank is recov ering at his home sf washington boulevard from an accident at his sawmill ntir jonesville la in which his right arm was broken by _ lo._q chain russ warned of disaster to industries finance minister says workmen's huge demands will drive j countless enterprises bankrupt j moscow and rural districts dis organized wages already in creased 100 per cent petrograd may 28 the indus trial crisis in russia is so acute that according to the declarations of , tho minister of finance m shinga . roff only a miracle can save the . country from economic ruin the demands of the workmen were so huge he declared that it seemed im possible to keep the industrial wheels going for any great time the socialist ministers t a recent ministerial council said the only possibility they saw of settling the difficulty was to bring the war to a close neither the coalition cabinet nor the newly appointed commission to regulate the difficulties between cap ital and labor has yet found a way to settle the industrial crisis the commission is composed of the ministers of finance trade and indus try and labor but since there is a wide divergence of views between the minister of finance and the new socialist minister of labor it seems probable that this commission will be confronted with the same tiiffi culties that attended previous ef forts at reconciliation factories must close an investigation of the factory con ditions in petrograd leads to the ' alarming but inevitable conclusion " that unless the government soon finds ' a means of adjusting the present dif ' ficulties most of the industrial enter prises working for national defense ' will be compelled to close within a i few months ' an investigation shows that virtu ( ally the same difficulties prevail in j all the big factories in petrograd and ' apparently authenticated reports ' from the moscow dunaetz and ural ' districts indicate general disorganiz ation < in man of the fnetorle the de ' m and b tli e workmen for increamed w-_en are ct __. greater than the entire profits of the factorie under ' the best condition of production the workmen through their com ! mitiees are in virtual control of the factories and all business has to be ' submitted to them for approval ( wages in a majority of the factories have already been increased from 100 to 150 per cent but there has been no offset for the advance in pay of the output plants face bankruptcy in one of the works in petrograd ' the workmen recently demanded the immediate payment of 13,000,000 ru-l b!es â€” nominally 56,500,000 â€” to cover i an increase of fifteen kopecs per i ' hour for each workman since the beginning of the war the direc tors of the organization immediately ] communicated with the government : and asked to be placed under voiun ( j tary arrest as protection against the threats of tho workmen which as i usual accompanied the demand thej directors for two di-.ys were housed i , in the ministry of justice an eight-hour day has become ef fective in ail factories according to the estimate of a leading manufacturer the output of these factories has suffered an aver i age decrease of 40 per cent since the j i revolution he explained that all 1 these concerns were confronted with ! an imminent shortage of raw ma j terials and with bankruptcy monks demand rights i the spirit of revolt has reached the i monasteries the monks are demand ing citizens rights and are eradi cating evidenci ot their persecution of jews t the monastery troitsa-lavra near moscow the monk burned cv i eral carloads of reactionary litera ture n.ludln pogrom advocacies chicagoans promoted at sheridan fraser hale and john cudahy get commission as second lieutenants 33 are advanced ordered to prepare for departure within week national guards men at fort unwelcome by ben kendall i'ort sheridan 111 may 8 â€” thirty-three more men at the fort sheridan training camp members of well-known Chicago families and some of national prominence were commissioned as officers and ordered into active service by an official communication from the war de partment late this afternoon they are to assume regular army duties iimmedlately among those named for active service to-da are fraser hale golf er of national fame john cudahy harry c boardman john d brewer spencer e young phillip c rider and henry f tenney they were commissioned as second lieutenants b c english is caftaur the others put into duty and their rank are benjamin c eng lish captain of infantry her bert p folkers frederick c foltz , sidney f greeley sajnuel p grif fitts charles r gross parker h chamberton lyle h gift eugene e morgan maurice w ocheltree ar thur a odell walter h sehlegel first lieutenants robert h gilmore phillip f w peck philip c rider john c kuocz hiram w moore lynn j morgan william o owen roy f shannon lloyd s shumway and frank f wormwood from the medical reserve officers corps six men were commissioned as regular officers and ordered into duty they are albert h holer cap tain william h senn ralph kaysen horatio n jackson leslie j cart wright and otto a kreml first lieu tenants 74 rookies called the new order increases the list of fort sheridan students elected for active service to seventy-three controversy between camp com manders and national guard com manders over appointment of guards men to the training camp has re sulted in a war department order postponing the time limit for candi dates to report to may 30 terroroll eclipses dynamite by 10,000 new york may 28 â€” an explo sive ten thousand times more power ful than dynamite is the discovery of dr d de waltoff vice president of the american co-pharmaceutical league and his son mortimer dr de waltoff announced to-night at the annual banquet of the society five grains would destroy the wool worth building he said his patriotism costs c.e kohl his life l j at ioti.sm caused the death of charles e kohl cne cf the best known vaudeville managers in the united states at his home in ocono mowoc wis last night heart disease was given officially as the cause but friends blame his strenuous efforts to obtain promo tion from second to first lieutenant in the wisconsin national guard he achieved his aim only a few days ago italian war mission plans Chicago visit washington m_y ->.â€” prince of uiiine and the itnlir ir mission again met the president to-night at a reception given bv s"cre'a:-y and irs lansing the prinqe accepted an invitation to visit new ywk city and is planning a visit to Chicago brazil takes its first step toward war rrio janeiro may 28 the brazilian chamber to-day passed the first reading of the government measure revoking brazil's neutrality in the war be tween germany and the united states the vote was 136 to 3 santiago chile may 28 chile will support brazil in adopt ing vigorous measures against germany says the diario illus tradt police end riot at lovett home u of c students in crowd that hangs effigy of professor a crowd of 250 persons among them scores of students of the uni versity of Chicago last night hanged professor robert m lovett in effigy before his home 171s east fifty sixth street the hanging was a protest against the address of professor lov ett before the pacifist meeting at the auditorium theater sunday after noon drums were beaten tin horns toot ed and hoots and hisses added to the pandemonium riot call seat la a riot call was sent in by a south park policeman and more than fifty police from the hyde park station responded with drawn clubs they scattered the crowd and then cut the effigy down and carted it to the sta tion special delivery letters were de livered to all university of Chicago fraternity houses early in the even ing calling the students as loyal americans to a mo-ting to protest against the address of professor lov ett hand bills were distributed from three taxicabs and posters tacked on trees leader gave ma-os as smith a few minutes before 8 o'clock a big touring car with the curtains drawn appeared before professor lov ett's home a man who gave his name as a w smith stepped out drew the effigy out of the car and with assistance hanged it to a tree the demonstration failed in its most important object â€” professor l-vett was not at home to hear or see it further arrests as a result of the riotous climax of sunday's peace meeting in grant park were ex pected last night following admis sions by several prisoners that they had been urged to violence by pro german propagandists hinton g clabaugh divisional chief of federal investigfa tors stopped quiz zing the ten men and women prison ers at 9 o'clock last night lons i enough to send a half dczen opera tives 6n rush orders to take addl i tional suspects into custody two young girls who claimed to be innocent victims of circumstances pleaded for their liberty they were j belle and fanniel yampolsky of 1409 j north campbell avenue u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair and wurmer tuewdu ; wednesday un settled probably lu>vver gentle to moderate variable nlnda p__a_o for t wenty-i-cr hours emlii _ at 2 a bl highest 57 lowest 4."5 average 5j ; normal temperature fur the day 01 fx'fieieney f hmpeniture 61 dâ€”icietk-.v of tem]Â»erature since jauu-ry 1 107 i.ecijiiutiorj for twenty-four hours ending at 7 . m none deficiency of peed pitation since jii-uai 1 2.77 r.litiie binâ€”cd 7 Â». in 08 2 p m 82 | 7 p ui 41 1 baiuiiictri qtenÃŸl tedoeafl to sea level 7 â– _ in t3 7 [Â„ i 8.87 uiir-e to day 4:1 sun set 7:16 ______ _______ isÃŸurt m 1 i - nation-wide anti-draft plot ii a is iiiei eh.t lira i secret society backed by ger mans in texas disclosed in conspiracy 300 mountaineer fuedists join movement i official washington statement promises quick punishment as warning against further in j terference with conscription by international news servici i washington may 28.â€”offi cial announcement was made to-day of a plot to hinder registration and to resist conscription by an armed uprisiug against the government eleven arrests have been made and nine indictments have already been returned by federal grand juries the conspiracy is declared by the â– department of justice to have hud â€¢ jits origin in texas where a society was formed several months ago for the ostensible purpose of co-opera tive buying the members were re quired to take a secret oath rifles obtained for revolt on conscription after the enactment of the se lectlve draft law says the depart ment's announcement a strong ger man influence succeeded in inducing the organization to turn its efforts to eombatting conscription and high powered rifles were obtained to in timidate persons subject to registra tion and the officials who will b appointed to perform the registra tion two of the men arrested wera brought to koanoke va to-day and landed in jail they are william vernon mccoy a grizzled mountain ! eer of sixty-five who gained noto-^j riety in the famous hatfield-mcojs , i feuds and his lieutenant j j i ! phipps these men it is alleged â– â– i were the organizers of an armed i i company in the mountain districts of i j virginia ! plot watched in i middle west cities m similar conspiracies have been dia-^b covered in the middle west whera the influence of the i w w is be lieved to be responsible for the at i tempts to combat conscription tho i statement says there are indications that attempts i will be made in one or two of tha j central western cities to make re_ib i tration ineffective the department | j is prpared to care for such emerg encies the nine men indicted were proini , i i nent members of the texas organisa i ! tion they were dealt with prom t j iy it is stated as a warning t th i public generally of the stringent pol i icy which the attorney general pur ] poses to pursue in enforcing th ; army measures 300 mountaineers join i revolt conspiracy mccoy and phipps were arr-si-d i in st paul a little town in whyti i county in the extreme southwestern part of virginia dispatches from ; koanoke declare that the plot which j they were preparing to execute i i eluded the murder of well-to-d m ! property owners the seizure of their property ami a virtual declaration o war against th o.vernment of th united states three hundred rnomi i w;t am u74115 a j devlin an ii^e-t of ' the de^b pai'tmer of justice who rrostjh__v oath pledges death to rich in draft plot washington may 28.â€”fol lowing is tho oath taken by 300 mountaineer feudists in their call for armed revolt against con scription as disclosed by the attorney general go to ye rich men weep and howl for the misery that shall come upon youl in the name of god the great supreme here under the black arch of heaven's avenging symbol i pledge and consecrate my body and limbs to devote my life to obedience to my superiors that no peril shall deter me from executing their orders that i will submit to every possible means in my power for the extermination cf our enemies and big freeholders and before violating a single clause or implied pledge of this obligation i will permit the separation of my head and body amen sued here in anti-draft plot j u s agents begin roundup of other suspects in midnight auto raids at least three men and possibly two women are held in a Chicago ] police station awaiting formal charges to-day that they are involved in the nation-wide conspiracy to hinder and discourage registration june -.' pi it fjtpped in bcd no information concerning tht charges against the prisoners was given out by ilr clabaugh beyond the statement that a big conspiracy designed to defeat the conscription law had been nipped in the bud details of the plot are in posses sion of mr clabaugh the conspiracy of which he has been apprised is not confined to Chicago but includes the entire central district over which he has control evidence of the plot | he said has been found in portions j of wisconsin northern Illinois in diana ohio michigan and lowa mr clabaugh questioned the pris oners yesterday he and his first as sistant walter l furbershaw re j mained in their headquarters in the federal building until nearly mid night while a squad of special agents â– in two government automobiles went j on what was reported to be a round j up of other suspects woman age-wan spv it is believed mr clabaugh will ; give his evidence to united states attorney charles f clyne to-day for j presentation to the federal grand i jury a woman is said to have been the j head of the conspiracy agencies in sympathy with if not in the eipploy | of the german government are be j lieved to have taken part i kvidence said to have been sup 1 plied to the government indicates i that riot and even bloodshed were ; j contemplated here to hinder the ! â€¢ draft district attorney clyne said yester i day that his office is prepared to - prosecute not only anti-conscription i i conspirators but all men between 1 i twenty-one and thirty-one who fail i i to obey the law hughes and butler for peace league new york may s expressing hope the united states and other na ] ; tions of the world would be drawn i into a concert to preserve peace after german autocracy had een crushed '. : â– i â€¢. and nicholas mur raj bui 1 â– n dent of columbia univc 1 slty to-nig_t opened la c:i : lof meetings at long _ eâ€”cbr-for the ( natio_al conference on foreign rela v jhg_ff b mm a_\\r __ t__7*__________e 2_ptx ll â– 11-ksr et^^yfc j f b j

final edition Chicago examiner i vol xv no 136 a m t , ._,, , i ii tuesday Chicago may 29 1917 .- - i â– â– â– -Â»..,, tuesday registered tt s patent office â– â€” - p â– â– ' â– '- price two cents ___>.-_-___ elsewhere three cents s muzzle on peace talkstirs capitol announcement of committee on public information arouses congress to new peril on com promise censorship provision six senators and representatives formerly disposed toward a mild censorship now oppose curb of any nature by james j montague 11 t ashixgton may 28 de vy spite the mor strenuous el ' ' forts of the enemies oc free speech the prospects of estahlishing a legal censorship are dwindling the announcement by the commit tee on public information that dis ' u-sion ot peace terms ought to be banned during the war has convinced members of both houses the adminis in's aim is not only to censor lews but to curb all discussion this amounts of course to a pro hibition of free speech and has aised a storm of protest new clause called menace to liberty both senator johnson and senator borah have pointed out that any cen sor-hip is a menace to american lib erty the conference committee will re port its makeshift amendment to morrow the report will not be brought up before thursday and no vote will be taken till friday when t is hoped the whole matter will be decided once and for ail in its final clause the amendment destroys all pretense of permitting comment and criticism such comment and criticism are permitted only when they do not re veal prohibited news crime to expose official incompetency it fail readily 1 neen that had a paper daring be spanish war com mented on the fact that embalmed beef was being sold to the troops it vonld have revealed the fact that embalmed beef was beine sold to the troops and inasmnvh as anything con cerning the troops could be prohib ited by presidential proc imation the editor protesting against the poi soning of the soldiers would be sub ject to a jail sentence rhe compromise also permits the president to say what may be per mitted thereby putting it within his power or rather in that of some ir sible subordinate to limit the printing ot news to very routine mat lers and bar everything else 1 nilrr this draft or the amendment if the president failed to authorize the printing of any news of the war no paper could print any such news ______ ettin into serious trouble a counting of noses in the senate to-day indicated that there is still a decisive majority against any cen orship senate demands facts in mongolia deaths washington may 28 â€” the sen ate naval affairs committee will be i gin searching inquiry friday into the accident which killed two chi cago red cross nurses on the amer ican liner mongolia the investigation was ordered by the senate to-day action was pre ceded by vigorouÃŸ debate senator - reylinghuysen denounced the use of shells seventeen to nine teen years old he said this is not the president's war this is not the war department's war this is not any one man's war this is a war of the ameri can people the president is _ master word painter but i de nounce this stupid doctrine that the american people must be kept in ignorance re_ariil conduct of . ._â€¢ war kaiser masses new army to crush france ii 10 hurl 110 wiiis berlin plans crushing blow be fore u s can send troops 21 airplanes fall in battle seen as prelude of new struggle london may 28 despite offi cial secrecy there were strong hints 10-day that the fighting on the west front is about to be re i sumed ou a tremendous scale reports from behind the german ' lines indicate a massing of new forces and artillery on a huge scale an enormous number of troops drawn from the eastern front and fresh masses of new troops from the interior of germany are con centrated behind the arras battle field behind the french and british lines there also is tremendous activity it | is expected that the british and french will launch a new offensive to forestall any new plan of'cam paign von hindenburg has in mind a hint of the impending ne"w bat i ties is given by the widespread air fighting of yesterday and to-day paris to-night claimed the destruc tion of nine german aeroplanes the germans claim to have demolished a dozen allied flyers and two observa tion balloons british airmen for the last two days have been driving far behind the german lines this struggle for air supremacy has been the prelude to every new offensive kaiser plans drive before u s can help washington may 2 s from a mass of confidential information which has reached president wilson | and his advisors in the last few days ! the full scope of the latest german plans are revealed germany plans the destruction of france's power of offensive before american troops can be trained and | placed in the trenches it is learned that germany is about j to throw into the fighting on the west front a new and fresh army es : timated at from 1.000,00 to 1,500,000 | men who have been under intensive training i germany for several i months america unable to offset offensive now these men were drawn from the industrial life of germany by the national reorganization that followed germany's man power legislation military men here view the new situation with misgiving it is . scarcely possible the united states j can furnish men in sufficient num i ers to stem any new german of [ tensive this summer recent dispatches from france passed by the censor stated without i any equivocation that france practi cally has reached the end of her man ] power england too it is believed reached the limit of her offensive power with 1,500,000 on the wesi front and 000,000 at home and in j other fields it is doubtful whether i she can place new armies in the tih.f in france ' the american troops destined franc cannot excel 100,000 the end of summer it wiil take mo ' â– han a year to place i reauj effective | force us armies are reckoned day in tho field britain's last dollar staked says balfour ottawa may 28 a j bal four british minister of for eign affairs speaking to-day to parliament declared england had staked its lost dollar on democ racy and if democracy failed the empire would be bankrupt indeed mr balfour declared however he knew democracy would not fail i know the democracies of the old world and the new will come out of this struggle not merely triumphant in the military sense but strengthened by their own ef fort he saiji food survey bill is passed lever measure now goes to sen ate miss rankin wins on maiden speech by john temple graves washington may 28 the great food bills are having a slow pas sage through the sixty-fifth con gress the house after four days offi cial debate to-day passed the first lever bill â€” the bill carrying an ap propriation of 14,522,000 for food survey and stimulation of produc tion the bill was passed without a roll call but in the senate legislation was stormy millions of dollars in an hour were ejected from the gore bill late this afternoon the sen ate cut down the appropriation of 4,500,000 for the eradication of ani mal diseases to 825,000 the vote was 35 to 34 further efforts will be made to cut other appropriations steadily the most notable comment was the statement of hoke smith of the com mittee who comforted his rebellious colleagues with the remark that the agricultural committee had not yet agreed even on the hoover matter nor had it favorably reported the sec tion under criticism by the senator from missouri nor had any mem ber of the agricultural committee ex pressed a willingness to introduce a resolution carrying such powers jeanette tlankin â€” the lady from montana â€” made her maiden speech and succeeded in obtaining an amend ment to the food bill miss ranjcin is a sleepless sentinel and champion of woman's rights in the house and in woman's catise she won her first congressional laurels | she introduced spoke on and had i passed in less than five minutes amid ! tremendous applause an amendment i providing that as much as possible i of the food conservation work under the lever bill shall be done by women representative hamlin in the i chair suddenly recognized the lady i from montana in an instant the turbulent house i was silent miss rankin braced her j self against the row of chairs in front i of her seat cleared her throat and 'â– began her brief simple and mar i velously effective speech she spoke | for just three minutes when she concluded the house broke into an ovation so sustained that the chair man of the committee of the whole was forced to ran for order when order was restored chairman of the agricultural committee lever said i should represent neither the chivalry nor the eood judgment of the agricultural committee if i of fered any objection to this amend ment .â€” prince of uiiine and the itnlir ir mission again met the president to-night at a reception given bv s"cre'a:-y and irs lansing the prinqe accepted an invitation to visit new ywk city and is planning a visit to Chicago brazil takes its first step toward war rrio janeiro may 28 the brazilian chamber to-day passed the first reading of the government measure revoking brazil's neutrality in the war be tween germany and the united states the vote was 136 to 3 santiago chile may 28 chile will support brazil in adopt ing vigorous measures against germany says the diario illus tradt police end riot at lovett home u of c students in crowd that hangs effigy of professor a crowd of 250 persons among them scores of students of the uni versity of Chicago last night hanged professor robert m lovett in effigy before his home 171s east fifty sixth street the hanging was a protest against the address of professor lov ett before the pacifist meeting at the auditorium theater sunday after noon drums were beaten tin horns toot ed and hoots and hisses added to the pandemonium riot call seat la a riot call was sent in by a south park policeman and more than fifty police from the hyde park station responded with drawn clubs they scattered the crowd and then cut the effigy down and carted it to the sta tion special delivery letters were de livered to all university of Chicago fraternity houses early in the even ing calling the students as loyal americans to a mo-ting to protest against the address of professor lov ett hand bills were distributed from three taxicabs and posters tacked on trees leader gave ma-os as smith a few minutes before 8 o'clock a big touring car with the curtains drawn appeared before professor lov ett's home a man who gave his name as a w smith stepped out drew the effigy out of the car and with assistance hanged it to a tree the demonstration failed in its most important object â€” professor l-vett was not at home to hear or see it further arrests as a result of the riotous climax of sunday's peace meeting in grant park were ex pected last night following admis sions by several prisoners that they had been urged to violence by pro german propagandists hinton g clabaugh divisional chief of federal investigfa tors stopped quiz zing the ten men and women prison ers at 9 o'clock last night lons i enough to send a half dczen opera tives 6n rush orders to take addl i tional suspects into custody two young girls who claimed to be innocent victims of circumstances pleaded for their liberty they were j belle and fanniel yampolsky of 1409 j north campbell avenue u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair and wurmer tuewdu ; wednesday un settled probably lu>vver gentle to moderate variable nlnda p__a_o for t wenty-i-cr hours emlii _ at 2 a bl highest 57 lowest 4."5 average 5j ; normal temperature fur the day 01 fx'fieieney f hmpeniture 61 dâ€”icietk-.v of tem]Â»erature since jauu-ry 1 107 i.ecijiiutiorj for twenty-four hours ending at 7 . m none deficiency of peed pitation since jii-uai 1 2.77 r.litiie binâ€”cd 7 Â». in 08 2 p m 82 | 7 p ui 41 1 baiuiiictri qtenÃŸl tedoeafl to sea level 7 â– _ in t3 7 [Â„ i 8.87 uiir-e to day 4:1 sun set 7:16 ______ _______ isÃŸurt m 1 i - nation-wide anti-draft plot ii a is iiiei eh.t lira i secret society backed by ger mans in texas disclosed in conspiracy 300 mountaineer fuedists join movement i official washington statement promises quick punishment as warning against further in j terference with conscription by international news servici i washington may 28.â€”offi cial announcement was made to-day of a plot to hinder registration and to resist conscription by an armed uprisiug against the government eleven arrests have been made and nine indictments have already been returned by federal grand juries the conspiracy is declared by the â– department of justice to have hud â€¢ jits origin in texas where a society was formed several months ago for the ostensible purpose of co-opera tive buying the members were re quired to take a secret oath rifles obtained for revolt on conscription after the enactment of the se lectlve draft law says the depart ment's announcement a strong ger man influence succeeded in inducing the organization to turn its efforts to eombatting conscription and high powered rifles were obtained to in timidate persons subject to registra tion and the officials who will b appointed to perform the registra tion two of the men arrested wera brought to koanoke va to-day and landed in jail they are william vernon mccoy a grizzled mountain ! eer of sixty-five who gained noto-^j riety in the famous hatfield-mcojs , i feuds and his lieutenant j j i ! phipps these men it is alleged â– â– i were the organizers of an armed i i company in the mountain districts of i j virginia ! plot watched in i middle west cities m similar conspiracies have been dia-^b covered in the middle west whera the influence of the i w w is be lieved to be responsible for the at i tempts to combat conscription tho i statement says there are indications that attempts i will be made in one or two of tha j central western cities to make re_ib i tration ineffective the department | j is prpared to care for such emerg encies the nine men indicted were proini , i i nent members of the texas organisa i ! tion they were dealt with prom t j iy it is stated as a warning t th i public generally of the stringent pol i icy which the attorney general pur ] poses to pursue in enforcing th ; army measures 300 mountaineers join i revolt conspiracy mccoy and phipps were arr-si-d i in st paul a little town in whyti i county in the extreme southwestern part of virginia dispatches from ; koanoke declare that the plot which j they were preparing to execute i i eluded the murder of well-to-d m ! property owners the seizure of their property ami a virtual declaration o war against th o.vernment of th united states three hundred rnomi i w;t am u74115 a j devlin an ii^e-t of ' the de^b pai'tmer of justice who rrostjh__v oath pledges death to rich in draft plot washington may 28.â€”fol lowing is tho oath taken by 300 mountaineer feudists in their call for armed revolt against con scription as disclosed by the attorney general go to ye rich men weep and howl for the misery that shall come upon youl in the name of god the great supreme here under the black arch of heaven's avenging symbol i pledge and consecrate my body and limbs to devote my life to obedience to my superiors that no peril shall deter me from executing their orders that i will submit to every possible means in my power for the extermination cf our enemies and big freeholders and before violating a single clause or implied pledge of this obligation i will permit the separation of my head and body amen sued here in anti-draft plot j u s agents begin roundup of other suspects in midnight auto raids at least three men and possibly two women are held in a Chicago ] police station awaiting formal charges to-day that they are involved in the nation-wide conspiracy to hinder and discourage registration june -.' pi it fjtpped in bcd no information concerning tht charges against the prisoners was given out by ilr clabaugh beyond the statement that a big conspiracy designed to defeat the conscription law had been nipped in the bud details of the plot are in posses sion of mr clabaugh the conspiracy of which he has been apprised is not confined to Chicago but includes the entire central district over which he has control evidence of the plot | he said has been found in portions j of wisconsin northern Illinois in diana ohio michigan and lowa mr clabaugh questioned the pris oners yesterday he and his first as sistant walter l furbershaw re j mained in their headquarters in the federal building until nearly mid night while a squad of special agents â– in two government automobiles went j on what was reported to be a round j up of other suspects woman age-wan spv it is believed mr clabaugh will ; give his evidence to united states attorney charles f clyne to-day for j presentation to the federal grand i jury a woman is said to have been the j head of the conspiracy agencies in sympathy with if not in the eipploy | of the german government are be j lieved to have taken part i kvidence said to have been sup 1 plied to the government indicates i that riot and even bloodshed were ; j contemplated here to hinder the ! â€¢ draft district attorney clyne said yester i day that his office is prepared to - prosecute not only anti-conscription i i conspirators but all men between 1 i twenty-one and thirty-one who fail i i to obey the law hughes and butler for peace league new york may s expressing hope the united states and other na ] ; tions of the world would be drawn i into a concert to preserve peace after german autocracy had een crushed '. : â– i â€¢. and nicholas mur raj bui 1 â– n dent of columbia univc 1 slty to-nig_t opened la c:i : lof meetings at long _ eâ€”cbr-for the ( natio_al conference on foreign rela v jhg_ff b mm a_\\r __ t__7*__________e 2_ptx ll â– 11-ksr et^^yfc j f b j